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Red Couplets春联Decorations are an important feature of the celebrations for the Chinese New Year. One of the main forms of decoration are the 'Red Couplets', which are Chinese good luck sayings written on red paper, often with gold trimmings and usually made up of four Chinese characters which ask for luck in terms of long life, wealth etc. Red is not only a lucky colour for the Chinese, but also frightens off the monster 'Nian' who arrives at this time of year and destroys crops and homes.Some New Year couplets are intended to be pasted or pinned in special places such as the kitchen or doors, while some can be placed anywhere. The couplets are usually taken down after the New Year celebrations, though some people keep them up all year long in the hope of keeping good luck.
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春节要到了，来提前渲染一下气氛吧！除夕、拜年、春联、春晚、庙会、压岁钱、中国结…年味十足的春节英文小知识，给外国朋友介绍中国传统文化时用得上！接下来我整理了如何用英语来介绍春联，文章希望大家喜欢！ Spring Festival couplets spring festival couplets refer to antithetical couplets written on scrolls which convey people's wishes for peace, fortune and good luck with concise and matching words. before the spring festival arrives, chinese people will paste all their door panels with the couplets, highlighting chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. chinese have always preferred the color red, as it stands for passion and good fortune. personally, i think the colors for spring festival couplets - red and black - classically beautiful. the content of the couplets varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the year. also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance. the custom of writing couplets on peach panels started in the tang dynasty (618-907), and became popular in the song dynasty (960-1279). the couplets earned their official name from zhu yuanzhang, the emperor who began the ming dynasty (1368-1644) and had become a form of art by the qing dynasty (1644-1911). people used to paste couplets on doorposts, door panels and lintel, as well as on furniture and screen wall. in the courtyard they had "spring sunshine bright." in the living room they had "graceful friends around," "treasures fill the home" and "wishes for good fortune." even over the bed they pasted "bliss of health." writing the couplets was in fact a kind of competition in folk wisdom and calligraphy attended by every family. nowadays, however, few people write their own couplets, with plenty of choices offered in shops.
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春联的英语短文During the festival, each family would light firecrackers and paste up Spring Festival couplets, and the relatives and friends would send New Year's greetings go each other to wish everything smoothly in the new year.过年的时候，每家都放鞭炮，贴春联。亲戚朋友之间要相互拜年，预祝在新的一年里事事顺利。The Chinese people love to stick couplets on the Spring Festival, which are also written on red paper.春节时，中国人喜欢贴春联，春联也是用红纸写的。Spring scrolls, also known as spring posts, are poems written on red rice paper to celebrate the New Year.春联，也叫“春贴”，是人为庆祝春节在红色纸上写下的诗句。During the Spring Festival,every family pastes the Spring Festival couplets on their doors to express sincere blessings and good wishes.（春节期间，每家每户都在门口张贴春联以表达真诚美好的祝愿。）
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春节（The Spring Festival）英文介绍 The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year. Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened. On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko. The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves. After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year. This is called "Seeing the New Year in". Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing. Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils. Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance. The Chinese character "fu" (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese the "reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall. People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in. Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely. Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. People thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. However, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. As a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room. The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished. China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.
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